Every few months, celebrities line themselves up along a velour carpet, dressed in clothes someone helped them put on, unhinging their plastic jaws to scream, “Judge me!” and hoping to be pat on the back by people with egos bigger than their own. In the hierarchy of award show fashion, the VMAs lie low in...
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Student Group Brings new publication to campus
The new student-run magazine on campus first passed into readers’ hands in September. Its name? Simply, “The Magazine.” Senior Aidan Cyrus and junior Noah Hoonhout said that, while campus publications like the Collegian, Tower Light, and The Hillsdale Forum provide campus with news, literature, and intellectual essays, they saw room for a culture magazine that...
The Sauk performs “Clue: The Musical” over fall break
The Sauk Theatre recently featured its first full-length musical in over two years — with 216 possible endings and a dead man as the star. “I live to die,” the narrator and future murder victim Mr. Boddy, played by Josh Lightner, told the audience, smiling wickedly. The board game Clue came to life onstage in...
Whitmer vetoes birdfeeding bill
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer vetoed a bill sponsored by Republican state Rep. Ken Borton, that would have eased restrictions on bird and wildlife feeding near private residences. The bill would have permitted residents to put out more than two gallons of feed within 300 feet of their residence to prevent animals from starving or for recreational...
Women are not just ‘birthing peoples’
A new and most dangerous front in the 21st-century war on women opened when the word woman itself became taboo. The Lancet, a British medical journal, joined the onslaught of sources attempting the erasure of women when it published an article about the stigma surrounding menstrual cycles. “Historically,” the front page of its Oct. 1...